Why are ICs always in large packages, how is this dot powered?
It is easy to create an IC smaller than the point of a pencil.
1. Problem #1 is that you need to connect it to power and ground and data buses -- which is why ICs are put into large packages, and why there are circuit board traces leading to them.
2. The dot had neither a windmill nor a solar panel nor a connection to a powerbus, so how is it supposedly powered? Itsy bitsy tiny little nuclear reactor?
And how does it connect to data paths? Psychokinetics?
Simple physics proves that the story has huge errors in its vague technical descriptions and photos.
And with the technical details like power and data connections left out, Bloomberg's story has less than zero credibility.
+++ That said, I do not doubt for a minute that the USA, UK, China, and probably Russia ALL engage in this sort of hardware hacking on a regular basis against key non-governmental targets. +++
(Doubtlessly this sort of spying occurs between governments, but with government targets it is expected. Hopefully no educated person is so arrogant, imperialistic and immoral* that they think their government should be exempted from other governments doing to it what it does to others.
* Accepting others doing to you what you do to others is part of the Lord's Prayer -- the "trespassing part". People living in countries that are truly and sincerely Christian do not claim exceptionalism.
To claim exceptionalism while claiming to be Christian is to lie to yourself and your god.)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
